Social activist Tarana Burke created the "me too" movement a decade ago to help sexual assault survivors in disadvantaged communities.

Actress Alyssa Milano was one of the first high-profile women to use the "me too" hashtag this year after several actresses came forward with allegations of sexual assault against movie producer Harvey Weinstein.

"If you've been sexually harassed or assaulted write 'me too' as a reply to this tweet," she wrote on Twitter in October.

"Women posting 'me too,' I think, gave them the courage to not have to tell their story or not have to name their predator but to just stand in solidarity," Milano said in an October interview on ABC News' "Good Morning America."

Weinstein has repeatedly denied any allegations of "nonconsensual sex."

Featured on the current Time person of the year cover are actress Ashley Judd, singer Taylor Swift, former Uber software engineer Susan Fowler, California lobbyist who Adama Iwu and strawberry picker Isabel Pascual. They all went public with the stories of sexual misconduct they said they faced in the workplace.

President Donald Trump, the magazine's 2016 person of the year, was the runner-up this year, and Chinese President Xi Jinping was third on the list.

Oh sad. but the topic as "person of the year" sure the H isn't a very HAPPY occassion... something to bring pride and warm fuzzies for Time readers... Noooo, the "person" is a mission / cause to get women to stand up and press charges against men who are obviously capital A 2xs 1h 1o 1l 1e another s... And I suggests in a timely- iron is hot -manner as well. NOT 30 years later!!!!!Silence is acquitance or something akin to that word silence is permission? approval? missing for 7 years you#re legally DEAD: He assualted me 20 years ago is a movement!!

What needs to happen is female owned/operated businesses and other such entities need to boycott Alabama especially if Moore is elected. No business should want to do business in a state as corrupt as a Moore-led Alabama. Let's get corporations to do the right thing and not do business with a Moore-led Alabama. Boycott Moore; boycott Alabama.

Bet tumps angry now, the very women he's been abusing willfully over the years, are now stealing the cover that he obviously want himself, through their excellent #metoo campaign. I'm proud of and happy for all of those that are speaking out against this repugnant behavior, it's way past time for change.

I hope the story eventually comes to light that women sexually harass their employees, too. Whether the employees are men or women. While men come on to me in the workplace, none have tried to fire me for turning them down. And none have physically assaulted me. Not true of women. They'll come at you physically and you'll be on the street looking for work in very short order. Women take no prisoners.